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Please join us in celebrating this mural encompassing the parking lot of 611 Main Street by Kenneth Lavallee & emerging artists from Red Road Lodge. The event will feature a curated art exhibition by Niki Little, JD & The Sunshine Band and the official unveiling of the work. 

OUTSIDE: 
The mural component of this project will be executed by Kenneth Lavallee with the support of emerging artists from Red Road Lodge. This will provide a mentorship opportunity for the emerging artist, as well as an added opportunity to engage with the community on a grassroots level. We hope that this tradition can continue as part of Wall-to-Wall, as we have our eyes on other walls in the neighbour- hood as well. 
With the pair of murals that Kenneth Lavallee will be creating for this project, their mirrored star-blanket-inspired designs speak to his Métis heritage and engage with Indigenous communities hyper-locally and across the country. In First Nations’ cultures, star blankets are bestowed as gifts of the highest honour. The star blanket’s geometric representation of our ever-reliable morning star is intended to protect, empower, give comfort and hope to those wearing it over their shoulders. The design will commemorate and draw attention to missing and murdered Indigenous women and hopefully help to push the conversation that is growing around this subject. 

At 9 PM the murals will act as a backdrop as JD & The Sunshine Band perform for Main Street! Free! Open to the public!

INSIDE: 
ᒪᒫ | Māmāow | Community 

Lita Fontaine, Sam Karney & Katherena Vermette, Jackie Traverse, Red Rising Magazine, and Jaime Black
September 30, 2016
Opening 6:00-10:00pm
Performance 7:30pm 

This land knows its people; Win-nipi has been a site of Indigenous community for over 6,000 years, representing generations of collective responsibility to the territory and to its people. Win-nipi has experienced many histories, treaties and “developments”. Collective responsibility can be found within community-based movements and mobilized by its nation’s members. Māmāow, highlights the way Indigenous communities can be activated through art and creators. Lita Fontaine, Sam Karney & Katherena Vermette, Jackie Traverse with Red Rising Magazine, and Jaime Black are artists who work with Indigenous community and whose works speak about the current issues that are happening within and around our communities. These artists reveal ways how Indigenous communities come together to raise each other up, sharing our responsibilities to each other, to the land and to our future.

This project is generously supported by Manitoba Arts Council